The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-05-12


to assert myself? / knew her theory
of married life was closely similar to
her practice as maid. She was to rule.
She was to fiirt as much as she chose. Her
husband was to be lover, a favored
lover, but not be ugly in temper to those
less favored Could it be her whim,
asked myself, to have me set it crudely
before her that had come here to get her
promise and must have its The risk of a
false step was enormous just at that hour
and at that conjunction. Now and then
she would stop, look about her search
ingly, and appear ito be listening. We
made for the steep eide of the island over
looking the bay and the village in order to
see the fOtilla pass once more thank God,
without usD before the admiral's canoe.
'tAren't you tired of all that?" asked /,
nOdding in the direction of Bar Harbor,
as we seated ourselves under a stunted
cedar where unseen, we could note the
whole bay. l had placed myself as near
as l dared, and played with the yellow
silk tassel of the cap she had discarded.
"Eh2 What? Bar Harbor? think it
IS puffectly splendidp' cried this exas-
perating young person.
nursed my knee and my thoughts
That abstraction was real; it was not as
sumed. At such moment, in such q
place, in the company of hm9 such man,
to be distract was indeed a symptom not
alarming merely, but crushing. My
throat went rather dry, and I think 1
must have groaned a little, for she fixed
her glorious eyes full of a liquid brown
fire upon me, and asked if / felt I'LL
''Yes,'' said, snappishly. 'T do feel
I'LL. Talk to me, amuse me, sing to me!
have been padding you about you
might at least do something in turn"
She Strengthened herself up from q
lounging position and looked at me care
fully.
''Why, you're as crazy as Tommy
Moorer'
We both laughed, and then entreated
her to sing. From being perfectly infiexible,
she suddenly consented, as If a thought
had struck her, and presently one after an
other of the songs that young people troll
at summer resorts pealed up among the
cedars of Turtle island in an uncultivated
but rich contralto. Suddenly she stopped
short
And over Tommy did go just rs I spoke
only it was, rather, that his canoe got
from under him and let him down. Like
you or me in such case he tried to climb
on the bottom of the canoe, which there
upon got from under him just as cleverly
as before; it is the way with canoes This
thing occurred five or six times before we
to climb any more if help was not given.
/ scrambled down the hill, and had got
half way when somebody dropped from
tree above an outlying rock, his straw
hat flying as he came, sprang into the
water, laid hold of the canoe, seized
Tommy by the neck, and held him the
other side of the overturned craft until he
could get his breath. Then he began to
haul and swim toward the shallow, and
&c. "a
done so quickly that my services were not
needed. The man came from the sky, as
it were-a deus ex Mackinaw, as Tommy
afterward said, when the straw hat of his
reScuer was fiShed out. Tommy always
did make the worst puns when hysterical.
The sea at Mount Desert being icy cold,
Idita and / set to work to make q fire at
once, and called to the two sopping ones
to come up. l noticed that, considering
the danger there had been, Idita was
strangely moved and hghtheaded, but
when the third man came up she evidently
knew him. So did l. He was long
legged, very quiet chap from Maine, who
never went into society, hated young
ladies, had a rooted dislike of southerners,
and regarded women who fiirt as no better
than traitors to their sex. We called him
Billy Carr-what his middle name and
family were did not know-but except
for prejudiceS of this kind he was as much
liked, by those who knew him intimately,
as any man have met. Well, Billy Carr
and Idita kept looking at each other in
curious way, and finally Tommy Moore
spoke, rather hoarsely:
FEBilly, you saved my life just now.'
ooh, that's all right
''I ought to, will tell copyright here
before Miss Idita. / slandered You, Billy
1 told her you were VIGOROUSLY dissipated;
that you never went anywhere because
people wouldn't receive you. 1t was a
lie, of course; but 1 did hear it said.
what heard and didn't deny it.
VIII you forgive me, Billy?'
Carr held out his hand, but Idita burst
into tears.
81 never, never will forgive you, Mr..
M-M-Noore, neverr' And she wept and
sobhed as if her heart would break.
tiptoed away, reckoning Tommy to
follow, as the fire was now started and
there was nothing else to do. We went
down to the canoe in silence; in silence we
padded to Bar Harbor; in silence took
my tickets by the evening steamer to
bay. I have always be-
ieved since that Mobile women are the
alost charming but the naughtiest Great
lres in the world. -"Cais'' in New York
Times.